Paralegal Contractor Resume CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Hire IT People

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Confidential, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Paralegal Contractor

Responsibilities:

Prepares draft responses to public records request.
Communicates with staff to coordinate the gathering and retrieval of information and records.
Communicates with vendors or outside government agencies as necessary regarding potential redactions.
Review records for exempt material and redacts the records accordingly.
Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite.

Confidential, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Paralegal Contractor

Responsibilities:

Confidential, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Paralegal Contractor

Responsibilities:

Confidential, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Paralegal Contractor, Austin

Responsibilities:

Extensive extranet work with Legal Anywhere Collaborator formally known as Confidential - Legal Collaborator uploading and linking documents, creation and management of plaintiff database records, as well as calendaring answer due dates.
Experience with litigation support applications such as EPIQ Relativity, Westlaw Case Notebook and Legal Radius.
Assistance with trial preparation by creating witness notebooks and marking deposition designations.
Located and downloaded documents from PACER and Case Anywhere.
Located and downloaded service of documents from Confidential Corporation - Confidential Advanatage.
Management of deposition and trial transcripts.
Retrieved witness materials from Confidential Lititgation Services.
Created a weekly report for new complaints as well as all complaints by state using Excel.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Project Assistant

Responsibilities:

Assisted attorneys and staff with daily tasks and updated pleadings and discovery binders.
Reviewed documents with each attorney daily from various practices.
Created client folders and inserts and indexed materials for off-site storage.
Provided index box numbers to staff for instances where off-site materials needed to be retrieved.
Prepared materials for closed client matters and other general office duties as directed.
Extensive work with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
Created new client matter folders and ordered offsite materials using LegalKey for attorneys and staff.
Created weekly new client matter reports with Excel.
Tracked each folder via LegalKey to each attorney to ensure that each was accounted for.
Created Excel spreadsheet reports via LegalKey weekly to ensure that each record could to tracked back to the last user in the event that another attorney may need the record.
Acted as liaison to offsite storage vendors and assisted in the supervision of delivery clerks.
Created monthly activity reports and handled customer service matters.
Resolved departmental record-keeping issues.